Presented on August 25, 2011 from 11:00 am to 12:00 noon in the Georgia Tech Architecture Library.

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Ellen Dunham-Jones is an award-winning licensed architect and professor teaching
contemporary architectural and urban design studios and theory. As co-author with
June Williamson of Retrofitting Suburbia; Urban Design Solutions for Redesigning
Suburbs (Wiley & Sons, 2009) her work has received significant media attention in The
New York Times, Harvard Business Review, Harvard Design Magazine, Urban Land,
Planning, Architectural Record, TEDx and other venues. The book received the 2009
PROSE award for architecture and urban planning from the American Association of
Publishers and was featured in Time Magazine’s March 23, 2009 cover story, “10
ideas changing the world right now.” She has published over 50 articles and 10 chapters in books, consults on urban design
projects, and lectures widely. She serves as co-peer review editor for Places
Journal and is Vice Chair of the Board of Directors of the Congress for the New
Urbanism. She received undergraduate and graduate degrees in architecture from Princeton
University and taught at UVA and MIT before joining Georgia Tech’s faculty to serve as
Director of the Architecture Program from 2001-2009. In 2006-7 she was the Ax:son
Johnson Visiting Professor in Sustainable Urbanism at LTH in Lund, Sweden and the
2010 Visiting Fellow in Sustainable Urban Development at SFU in Vancouver.

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Runtime: 62:29 minutes

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What is the state of current research on retrofitting suburbia and what are some of the research questions and new tools that
are on the horizon? This presentation begins with an overview of the author's work to date with June Williamson on urban
design strategies for re-inhabiting, redeveloping and regreening underperforming suburban properties into more sustainable
places. It follows with discussion of the many opportunities for scaling up these strategies and developing more robust databases
and performance metrics in future interdisciplinary collaborations.